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Science is a field where failure should be celebrated; see Thomas Edison and the lightbulb.

• gmueckl 8y ago
  ... Except that Edison succeeded. What kind of failures should we celebrate? There are two kinds that I can see: a failure to produce a result because of a lack of skill or knowledge and a failure to produce a result because of a demonstrable or provable reason. The last one is actually a success because that kind of failure produces new knowledge. But we have a culture in far too many fields where this is seen as not publishable.
  • Fomite 8y ago
    I have always wanted a 'Journal of Cautionary Tales', for studies that were well thought out, approached correctly, and just didn't work.
  • zamalek 8y ago
    "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." ~ Thomas Edison He eventually succeeded.
• vbuwivbiu 8y ago
  Joseph Swan, or any of the other 23 inventors of the lightbuld prior to Edison
• danieltillett 8y ago
  I wouldn't go as far as to say failure is celebrated, but it should be OK to fail. Your career should not be over because you tried something hard and it didn't pan out. I almost think we should have a magic card you get to play once in your career that resets your track record. This way you could take risk without totally destroying your career.